Why "liberal" Joe Klein really hates bloggers (crimes, felonies, leader)

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Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com does another terrific dissection of Joe Klein, and another great job of exposing the "liberal" mainstream media for the glorified Bush administration secretaries that they are. Even if you are a conservative not inclined to believe his viewpoints, though, he's worth the read. He clearly knows his stuff...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

Monday June 11, 2007 07:28 EST
Joe Klein's stirring defense of Lewis Libby
It is difficult to recall a single episode which has been more revealing of our political culture than the collective Beltway horror over the plight of the poor, maltreated and persecuted (and convicted felon) Lewis Libby. It is hardly surprising that the right-wing movement of which he is a part operates from the premise that their comrades ought to be exempt from criminal prosecution even when they commit felonies. That "principle" is a central and defining one for that movement, applied religiously to the Leader and everyone on down the right-wing food chain.

But what the Libby case demonstrates is that so many establishment journalists believe this just as religiously. To our media stars, "Beltway crime" is an oxymoron, at least when it is committed by a high-level political official. In exactly the way they treated all prior acts of lawbreaking by Bush officials as innocuous political controversies, the Beltway press speaks of Lewis Libby's felonies as being something other than a "real crime," all so plainly based on the premise that Libby -- as a dignified member in good standing of the elevated and all-important Beltway court -- ought to be exempt from the type of punishment doled out to "real criminals" who commit "real crimes." ...

[Mark S.]

I wasn't aware Joe Klein was considered a liberal. At least not by liberals. I've always thought he was a pretty standard middle-of-the-road moderate.

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Originally Posted by Mark S.

I wasn't aware Joe Klein was considered a liberal. At least not by liberals. I've always thought he was a pretty standard middle-of-the-road moderate.

Hence "liberal" as opposed to liberal. One poster here last week was calling Klein liberal in order to help prop up a point he was trying to make.

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Mr. Klein in 'liberal circles' is in fact not considered a 'Liberal' but more of an 'outdated pundit' and 'apologist' for Bush and the republicans. Mr. Klein is in fact angry at bloggers who have exposed him and other pundits who gave Bush a long leash in 2000- plus they have (the bloggers) made him increasingly irrelevant in the media.